Appeal No. 1999-2364
Application No. 08/562,816
wider than the top sheet (reply brief, p. 3). The examiner
contends that this is "about 50%."
It is unnecessary to decide this issue, because we agree
with appellant’s further argument that North does not disclose
a releasable connection between the top and bottom sheets
which, as recited in claim 1, "extend[s] from said top edge of
said top sheet toward said bottom edge thereof." In North,
the only disclosed releasable connection between the top and
bottom sheets is in the form of ribbons 15 and 16. These
ribbons do not extend from the top edge of the top sheet 2, as
required by claim 1, but
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